Sirach 48:8
King James VersionSource notes
“Who annointedst kings to take revenge, and prophets to succeed after him:”
Context
5Who didst raise up a dead man from death, and his soul from the place of the dead, by the word of the most High:
6Who broughtest kings to destruction, and honorable men from their bed:
7Who heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sinai, and in Horeb the judgment of vengeance:
8Who annointedst kings to take revenge, and prophets to succeed after him:
9Who was taken up in a whirlwind of fire, and in a chariot of fiery horses:
10Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the wrath of the Lord’s judgment, before it brake forth into fury, and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.
11Blessed are they that saw thee, and slept in love; for we shall surely live.